Ihor Korobchinskyi was
elected for the new President of Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation

My report I want to start with the good new. During her report
about the work of Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics' Committes Luibov Serebrianskaya
said from the tribunes:

- We had enough pain, let's stop the
conflict. Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics has to come with peace into the New Millennium

A little bit later I will stop separately on RSG theme and now I
will tell you about the conference a bit. After her report, Ludmila Tourischeva
thanked all the people for the support given to her and officially said of her
quit from the President "armchair"/ The reports of done work told of
the president of all committees. . About the discussion, I have to say, it
wasn't "dry". like it happens on such conferences. The presidents
sometimes couldn't sop after 3 minutes, which they were allowed to talk, because
there are too many gymnastics problems nowadays. The president of UFG (like it
was considered) deserved to be Ihor Korobchinskyi.

Leonid Spektokorov was
elected for the first vice-president. Here you are the names of other
vice-presidents, who are at the same time the presidents of that or this
gymnastics committees: Boris Shahlin (male
artistic gymnastics, Oksana Omeliyanchik(female
artistic gymnastics), Luibov Serebrianskaya
(rhythmic gymnastics), Vladimir Yuriyev
(sports acrobatics), Vladimir Halyavko
(battue) and Elena Levina (aerobics). And in
total to the heads UFG were elected 15 people.

And now again about rhythmic gymnastics. In the end of the
conference I took the express-interview with Luibov Serebrianskaya

- Can you tell, please, what is done for reaching the
peace?

- I want to notice that in the last time, I and Albina
Nikolayevna Deruigina sat at the table of negotiations, trying to find the
"EXIT" from this situation. Yes, the conflict must end, because all
these things are only good for our rivals. That scandal on the European
Championships in Zaragoza like kicked Ukrainian gymnastics to make peace, . But
I can't not notice and one thing: in the conflict there is also a positive
moment: the sports shape of gymnasts got higjher because there is lots of strong
rivals. But there are much more negative moments and that's why I'm for
the peace.

How can we reach it? I'm for such program. At first, we have to
make lots of meeting together. to solve all the problems, connected with the
competitions and their participants from Ukrainian. And the solution must be
made on the real shape of the gymnasts, not which Federation do they belong to.
Surely, the ideal situation will be if we will have the separate center of
preparing the National Team, like for example in artistic gymnastics. But we can
only dream about it. And I think that the meetings should be not just in Kyiv,
in Deruigins School, but and in Simferopol. we have very good training
conditions there.

Today didn't go that variant, which one is Albina Deruigina for.
She wanted to elect only one vice-president of technical committe, who
afterwards would make the project of ruling the gymnastics together in the
country. But such variant, most of the coaches didn't elect.

- In the beginning of your report you noticed that a huge most
of the coaches of Rhythmic Gymnastics is now in the Federation of Deruigins..

- Yes, that is right. Four years ago, when the conflict just
started, there were most of the specialists on our side. But then people came to
the Deruigins Federation because it is easier to send their gymnasts to the
competitions there. I won't say that they did good or right. I only want to make
Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics the strongest, but it won't happen before the two
federations will unit...Now we considered that it is necessary to have our
committe in the UFG, if we get the peace with FGU, maybe, the separate living
will go.

Albina Deruigina also was on the conference. In the talking with
me she noticed that she is for peace with both hands. Bit the real wish to do
something she doesn't see in her rivals.

Let's hope that a male hand will at last end this nightmare for
Ukrainian RSG....Let's hope...